Conceptual precision,
                              clarity,
is thought that is revealled
                  as fact

                  just as

emotional precisision,
                              intensity,
is felt as a pressure
                  to act.

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Notes:

Can one be too precise?

Is the philosopher right to reveal thoughts to us that cannot be unthought without perception?

Is the poet right to comcentrate a feeling to a point where the only relief is action?

Must they force us back upon our experiences like that? Must they make us see and do things we would otherwise avoid?

Must they make us suffer thus?

Perhaps everything in language can be suffered. No concept, no emotion, no matter how precise, is insufferable.

The philosopher moves us from confusion to clarity. It is not the fact, but the revelation of the thought, that philosophy gives us.

The poet moves us from langor to intensity. It is not the act, but the pressure of the feeling, that the poet sets before us.

We are now free to suffer it without annihilation.